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AMERICAN  NOMINATIONS: 


FILLMORE    AND 


BEIXG  AN  EXTRACT  FROM  A  WORK  ENTITLED 


THE  GREAT  AMERICAN  BATTLE; 


Ctmtcst  bdfomt  Clmstmtritg  mttr  |)olttit;tl  Slomimism. 


BY  MISS  AXXA  ELLA  CA11ROLL, 

OF  MARYLAND. 


WITH  TEN  ACCURATE  PORTRAITS  (O.V  STEEI.)   OF  DISTINGUISHED  MEMBERS  OF 
THK  AMERICAN'  PARTY 


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OF  THE 

GEEAT  AMEEICAN  BATTLE. 

THIS  book  is  designed  to  arouse  the  American  People  to  an 
intelligent  insight  into  the  dangers  which  environ  them,  from 
the  invasion  of  a  Foreign  Hierarchy  and  a  trained  Foreign 
Army,  that  have  assumed  to  hold  the  balance  of  power  in  our 
Civil  Government,  until  the  true  American  is  trampled  down, 
and  his  rights  are  invaded  every  day;  and,  to  show  that  this 
power  has  as  its  coadjutor  the  National  Executive  of  the 
country,  -which  has  moved  with  a  single  eye  to  the  glory  of 
the  Foreign  Despot,  to  whom  it  owes  its  elevation,  by  an 
American  Ballot-box !  It  appeals  to  the  American  women, 
to  move  with  the  same  zeal  to  arrest  our  destruction,  to  drive 
back  our  invaders,  as  they  manifested  in  1776,  when  a  cause 
ho  dearer  than  this  brought  out  their  patriot  mothers  !  It 
appeals  to  the  Press,  the  great  exponent  of  public  opinion— 
the  engine  which  can  plead  with  mightiest  force — to  come  and 
succor  Liberty  !  It  shows  the  dangers  and  insidious  wiles — 
occult  and  open — of  our  fierce  adversaries,  practised  upon  the 
youth  of  our  country  committed  to  their  schools  !  It  makes 
one  and  the  same  the  American  Party  of  1776,  of  which 
Washington  was  the  great  leader,  and  that  of  to-day!  It 
shows  that  the  principles  it  upholds  must  endure  while  the 
tJnion  stands  !  It  affirms  what  this  Party  means  to  perform; 
forbids  foreign  aggression  ;  tells  what  the  Constitution  says 
on  Naturalization  ;  makes  the  distinction  between  Protestant 
and  Papal  foreigners ;  gives  the  origin  and  progress  of  the 
Know-Nothing  Order  ;  reminds  the  American  People  that 
they  are  again  in  a  Revolution,  and  calls  on  one  and  all  to 
muster  for  that  Battle,  in  which,  it  ia  sincerely  hoped,  the 
Pen  and  the  Ballot-box  will  prove  mightier  than  the  Sword. 


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CHAPTER  XXV. 

AMERICAN     NOMINATIONS. 

"Now  conquer  we  must,  when  our  cause  it  is  just, 
And  this  is  our  motto — in  God  is  our  trust, 
And  the  star-spangled  banner  in  triumph  shall  wave, 
O'er  the  land  of  the  free,  and  the  home  of  the  brave !" 

THE  Convention  to  repair  our  diseased  national  life, 
"*  lias  just  closed  its  deliberations  at  Philadelphia.     And 
oe  God,  who  only  measures  and.  comprehends  our  dan- 
^  ger,  and  looks  upon  future  actions  as  done,  was  to  it, 
"first,  last,  midst,  and  without  end."     On!  on!  seemed 
^     the  silent  but  resistless  voice,  which  made  the  hearts  of 
^L    patriots  leap  into  their  heads,  and  sent  a  thrill  of  vital 
~,   force,  fierce  and  firm,  in  response  to  that  question,  which 
%  knocked  at  every  true  American  soul,  "  Who  hath  re- 
quired this  at  your  hands  ?"     What  a  man  has  done,  is 
o  the  best  test  he  can  furnish  of  what  he  will  do.     And 
y,   hence  the  gushing  spontaniety,  the  nation-wide  sym- 
|  pathy,  the  rapturous  devotion  with  which  the  name  of 
1    Millard  Fillmore  came,  free  from  solicitation,  unblem- 
:    ished  by  cunning,  or  wrinkled  by  selfishness,  as  the 
j    anchor  of  hope  to  the  American  party — the  surest 
means  at  command  for  the  salvation  of  our  country 
and  deliverance  from  the  aggregated  ills  which  have 
combined  to  curse  and  crush  our  great  nationality. 
,  ,(873)  •  2"\*,  r* ': 


AMERICAN  NOMINATIONS. 

In  Mr.  Fillmore  we  recognize  the  friend  of  our  whole 
country,  embracing  zealously  the  principles  for  which 
the  American  party  are  now  contending,  and  having  im- 
posed upon  himself  all  the  obligations  of  the  American 
Order,  is  now  placed  before  the  people  as  their  Ameri- 
can candidate,  to  administer  the  government,  if  called 
by  the  free  suffrages  of  American  voters,  only  as  an 
American  President !  Casting  aside  forever  all  former 
party  affiliations  or  designations,  he  will  require 
of  all  the  people  but  the  same  scrupulous  test  of 
American  principles  which  has  indueed  them,  in  their 
own  sovereignty,  to  call  him  to  their  support  in  the 
administration  of  the  government !  And  the  wisdom 
and  power  of  the  American  principle,  that  the  Presi- 
dency of  these  States  must  be  an  unsought  gift,  is  mani- 
fested in  the  nomination  of  Millard  Fillmore,  of  New 
York,  and  Andrew  Jackson  Donelson,  of  Tennessee, 
as  food  to  the  blood  of  the  American  party !  The  life, 
the  services,  the  integrity,  and  the  honor  of  Millard 
Fillmore  were  the  guarantees  to  the  party,  and  to  the 
country,  who  are  now  jubilant  with  joy,  at  the  sacred 
assurances  these  furnish,  that  he  will  be  faithful  to  the 
glorious  Union,  and  will  maintain  the  equal  rights  and 
equality  of  all  the  States!  At  home  and  abroad, 
the  government  will  be  administered  fairly,  firmly, 
and  purely,  in  conformity  with  American  principles, 
and  to  the  honor  and  glory  of  the  American  name. 
The  star  of  hope  has  appeared  in  the  good  Providence 
of  God,  and  the  nation  now  turns  to  Fillmore  and 
Donelson  for  deliverance  in  this  their  time  of  trouble. 
It  is  well  with  the  man,  says  the  prophet,  with  whom 
.••••i: 


THE   GEEAT  AMERICAN   BATTLE. 

even  his  enemies  are  at  peace.  And  when  even  Gov. 
Wise,  of  Virginia,  magnanimously  called  the  adminis- 
tration of  Millard  Fillmore,  Washington-like,  we  can 
understand  the  confidence  with  which  all  the  people 
are  now  inspired ;  and  realize  the  assertion  of  those 
who  sat  around  his  council  board,  that  not  a  thought 
was  ever  expressed,  nor  an  act  performed,  during  his 
continuance  in  office,  that  Avould  not  have  been  worthy 
of  Washington  himself!  "Proclaim  liberty  throughout 
all  the  land,  and  unto  all  the  inhabitants  thereof,"  was 
the  language  of  Holy  Writ,  inscribed  upon  the  Bell 
which  rang  the  annunciation  of  our  National  Indepen- 
dence in  1776  !  Since  we  became  a  free  and  happy 
people,  we  have  never  needed,  so  much  as  now,  hearts 
of  fire,  to  rouse,  strengthen,  and  emancipate  our  coun- 
.try  from  the  doating  nurses  and  rickety  judgment  of 
men  who  have,  by  the  smack  of  their  own  whip,  at- 
tempted to  keep  down  patriotism,  by  flogging  Ameri- 
cans, and  putting  their  God-conferred  liberty  in  the 
swaddling  bands  of  superstition  and  idolatry !  When 
now  the  honored  names  of  Fillmore  and  Donelson, 
fresh  and  bright,  spring  like  a  sunbeam  upon  the 
American  mind,  it  feels  the  need  of  no  keener  weapon 
than  that  of  truth,  to  sound  the  depths  and  the  shal- 
lows of  the  intelligence  of  the  people  which  embodied 
the  American  principles,  and  made  the  American  party 
their  undying  benefactor !  With  the  private  and  per- 
sonal history  of  Mr.  Fillmore,  the  public  are  already 
familiar ;  and  the  purity  of  his  life,  and  the  invulner- 
able nature  of  his  character,  impregnable  to  assault,  is 
the  great  and  indestructible  element  of  all  his  mental 
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AMERICAN  NOMINATIONS. 

and  moral  power.  A  gentleman  by  nature,  though 
born  without  any  of  the  advantages  or  accompaniments 
of  fortune,  he  learned,  in  the  experience  of  his  own 
history,  how  best  to  estimate  and  appreciate  the 
value  of  American  institutions.  "With  the  limited 
means  of  his  father,  he  worked  as  a  boy  upon  his 
farm,  until  the  age  of  twelve  years,  when  he  assumed 
the  responsibilities  of  his  own  support,  and  became 
apprenticed  to  a  clothier,  to  learn  the  art  of  dressing 
cloth ;  and  subsequently  to  a  wool-carder,  where  he 
remained  until  the  age  of  nineteen,  so  assiduously  cul- 
tivating, at  the  same  period,  his  comprehensive  intel- 
lect, as  to  have  remedied,  in  a  great  degree,  the  defi- 
ciencies of  his  earjy  education.  But  such  nobility,  jus- 
tice, and  integrity,  as  he  thus  early  represented,  were 
soon  discovered  by  a  distinguished  member  of  the 
bench,  in  his  native  county  of  Cayuga,  New  York, 
and  at  the  instance,  and  by  the  assistance  of  this  gen- 
erous benefactor,  and  the  aid  afforded  by  a  school 
which  he  himself  conducted,  Mr.  Fillmore  prosecuted 
his  legal  studies,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  at  Buf- 
falo, in  1823,  and  assumed  the  practice  of  law  in  the 
town  of  Aurora  the  same  year.  His  march  has,  since 
that  epoch,  been  steadily  onward.  Advanced,  profes- 
sionally and  politically,  by  intrinsic  merit,  the  sturdy 
and  uncompromising  friend  of  Eight,  he  has  spent  his 
life,  from  the  clothier's  shop  to  the  Presidential  retire- 
ment, under  the  brilliant  guidance  of  good  sense,  and 
illustrating  at  every  step  the  same  indomitable  energy 
and  decision  in  the  performance  of  every  trust  which 
he  manifested  to  Americans  when  called  by  a  benefi- 


THE   GREAT  AMERICAN  BATTLE. 

cent  destiny  to  preside  over  the  administration  of  their 
national  government ! 

The  name  of  Andrew  Jackson  Donelson  carries  with 
it,  too,  the  untamed  and  untamable  energy  of  the  popular 
and  honored  General  Andrew  Jackson.  It  rouses  ting- 
ling sensations  in  the  nerves  of  the  American  people ! 
It  enkindles  afresh  the  inspiration  of  the  past,  and  seems 
to  shrivel  every  obstacle  into  ashes  in  connection  with 
the  immortal  Hero  of  the  Hermitage !  Major  Donelson 
was  reared  under  the  guardianship  of  General  Jackson, 
and  thus  learned  that  the  strength  of  American  men 
should  be  given  to  break  the  clanking  chains  of  all 
civil  and  religious  intolerance.  He  showed  the  vitality 
of  his  thinking  principle,  by  his  rapid  attainment  to 
proficiency  in  the  studies  of  Cadet,  and  graduated  with 
distinction  at  West  Point,  in  1819.  He  immediately 
bore  a  commission  in  the  corps  of  Engineers,  and  sub- 
sequently was  appointed  Aid-de-camp  by  General 
Jackson,  with  whom  he  continued  while  the  General 
remained  in  the  army.  When  the  cities  and  plains  of 
the  country  rang  by  acclamation  for  his  call  to  the 
Presidency,  Major  Donelson  resigned  his  commission 
in  the  Army,  and  gave  the  most  of  his  time  to  facili- 
tate the  great  popular  movement  which  resulted  in  the 
elevation  of  General  Jackson  to  the  Chief  Magistracy 
of  the  nation.  He  now  accepted  the  position  of  his 
Private  Secretary,  and  as  a  member  of  the  President's 
family,  he  remained  for  the  two  terms  of  his  administra- 
tion in  charge  of  his  private,  as  well  as  official  corres- 
pondence. Upon  the  retirement  of  General  Jackson 
to  private  life,  Mr.  Donelson  was  tendered,  but  de- 


AMERICAN  NOMINATIONS. 

clined,  a  high  appointment  under  his  successor,  Mr. 
Van  Buren,  and  returned  with  General  Jackson  to  his 
estate  adjoining  the  Hermitage  in  Tennessee,  where  he 
continued  to  aid  him  in  a  correspondence  still  as  ex- 
tensive as  the  nation  he  had  filled  with  his  fame. 

In  1844,  when  the  influence  of  the  Tyler  administra- 
tion was  prostrate,  and  had  proved  too  narrow  to  secure 
the  annexation  of  Texas,  a  messenger  was  dispatched 
to  Gen.  Jackson,  desiring  him  to  induce  Mr.  Donel- 
son  to  accept  the  appointment  of  Minister  to  that  Gov- 
ernment, and  manage  the  negotiation.  In  his  absence, 
in  Mississippi,  when  the  messenger  reached  the  Her- 
mitage, the  General  returned  the  assurance  to  Mr. 
Tyler  that  he  would  comply  with  his  request.  And 
Mr.  Donelson,  a  warm  supporter  of  that  measure,  re- 
paired immediately  to  Texas  and  succeeded  in  securing 
such  a  modification  of  the  views  of  President  Houston, 
as  to  bring  about  the  act  of  annexation  in  a  manner 
satisfactory  not  only  to  both  Governments,  but  to  the 
people  of  both  countries,  who  thus  mutually  increased 
the  depth  and  strength  of  their  resources. 

The  records  of  the  State  Department-  at  Washing- 
ton, under  the  administration  of  Mr.  Tyler  and  his 
successor,  Mr.  Polk,  furnish  evidence  of  the  unmea- 
sured wisdom,  purity,  and  able  intelligence  which 
Mr.  Donelson  displayed  in  that  ever  memorable 
transaction.  Upon  the  election  of  Mr.  Polk  to  the 
Presidency,  he  desired  the  aid  of  Mr.  Donelson  in 
his  councils ;  and  a  Cabinet  appointment  was  urged 
upon  his  acceptance.  He,  however,  preferred  a  mis- 
sion to  Prussia,  and  in  184-6  took  up  his  residence  at 
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THE   GREAT  AMERICAN   BATTLE. 

that  Court,  where  he  remained  until  the  revolution 
and  the  formation  of  a  new  central  government  at 
Frankfort-on-the-Maine.  To  this  he  was  also  an  ac- 
credited Minister,  acting  at  loth  Courts,  until  re- 
lieved at  Berlin,  by  a  successor,  appointed  by  Mr. 
Polk.  The  central  Government  at  Frankfort  relapsed 
to  its  former  condition  after  the  revolution  of  1848, 
and  Mr.  Donelson,  in  1849,  being  recalled  by  Presi- 
dent Taylor,  closed  his  connection  with  the  public 
service  of  the  country.  The  letters  in  the  State 
Department  from  President  Taylor  attest  the  highest 
appreciation  for  his  fidelity  and  usefulness  as  the  re- 
presentative of  his  government.  During  the  agitation 
caused  by  the  acquisition  of  Mexican  Territory,  Mr. 
Donelson  was  induced  to  leave  his  private  interests 
near  the  Hermitage,  for  a  short  time,  and  conduct  the 
Washington  Union,  to  hasten  the  harmonious  adjudi- 
cation of  that  difficulty.  He  has  been  a  consistent  op- 
ponent of  the  administration  of  Mr.  Pierce,  and  of  the 
anti- American  influences  which  elected  him  and  now 
control  his  action ;  and,  occupies  the  position  to  which 
the  American  Party  has  just  called  him,  only  because 
he  saw  and  acknowledged  the  vital  action  of  that  one 
thought ;  that  the  force,  power  and  dominion  of  our 
own  nationality  must  be  traced  in  letters  of  fire  on  the 
brow,  and  become  the  crowning  .glory  of  Americans, 
now  or  never ! 

And  now,  Americans,  with  a  party  that  stands  only 
upon  the  broad  basis  of  the  Constitution,  and  solemnly 
recognizes  the  rights  of  all,  from  the  forest  and  prairies, 
the  lakes  and  rivers  of  our  Continent,  let  there  be  one 


AMERICAN  NOMINATIONS. 

common  stand,  irrespective  of  all  parties,  for  the  Ameri- 
can flag  and  American  principles,  having  inscribed 
upon  our  stars  and  stripes  our  American  brothers,  Fill- 
more  and  Donelson. 

When  Washington  was  called  by  Congress  to  lead 
on  an  embattled  host  to  victory,  there  were  present 
those  who  preferred  the  favorite  son  of  Massachusetts. 
But  that  spirit  which  fuses,  thinks,  feels,  interpene- 
trates the  patriot  soul,  and  directs  it,  made  that  choice 
then  a  vital  and  indissoluble  unit.  So  now,  let  no 
personal  preference  reveal  an  outward  impulse  which 
is  not  eager  for  action  under  the  halo  of  light,  which 
is  borne  upon  our  American  banner.  And  as  in  the 
times  which  tried  the  souls  of  our  fathers,  when  the 
mechanics  of  New  York  City-  boxed  up  their  tools,  and 
the  ploughmen  of  New  England  left  their  implements 
in  the  furrow,  to  secure  the  great  ends  for  which  the 
declaration  was  made — so  now,  may  all  considerations 
but  the  glory  of  our  common  cause  and  common  coun- 
try, be  boxed  up  or  left;  and  the  people,  old,  mid- 
dle-aged and  young,  with  the  mothers,  sisters  and 
daughters  of  our  land,  form  one  great,  vast,  executive 
force,  to '  elevate  our  national  principles  by  men  who 
will  never  be  found  Peter's  to  the  sovereign  majesty 
of  the  American  people ! 


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THE  "  GREAT  AMERICAN  BATTLE  "  contains  a  candid  and 
fearless  expose  of  the  motives  which  actuated  the  "Naval 
Retiring  Board"  in  their  outrage  upon  some  of  the 
distinguished  members  of  our  gallant  Navy;  as  well  as 
sketches  of  the  characters  who  composed  that  memorable 
"COUNCIL  OP  FIFTEEN,"  together  with  incidents  in  their 
former  personal  history. 


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